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Leibniz : Perception, Apperception, and Thought /

This book attempts to give coherence to the elements of Leibniz's epistemology by seeking to determine what he meant when, on three occasions and each time without explanation, he said that thought and the faculty of understanding are the products of the conjoining of apperception and perceptio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McRae, Robert F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1976.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 DESCARTES AND LOCKE; 3 PERCEPTION; Perception as Expression; Sensation; Apperception; Distinct Perceptions; Memory; The Cause of Perceptions; Perception, or Expression, as Action; 4 THOUGHT; The Primary Classification of Concepts; Leibniz's Terminology; Clear Ideas; Distinct Ideas; Complete Concepts; Incomplete or Abstract Concepts; Metaphysical Concepts; The Innateness of Metaphysical Concepts; The Innateness of Mathematical Concepts; The Two Great Principles; Axioms or Principles Grounded on the Principle of Contradiction
  • Architectonic Principles and Other Teleological Principles Grounded on the Principle of Sufficient ReasonInnate Principles and Truths; 5 UNDERSTANDING AND SENSIBILITY; Difference of Degree or of Kind?; The Necessity of the Senses to Thought; Phenomena